Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can't make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there
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My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I'm going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s... with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.
No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.
I'll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I'm not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.
Fuck big Tech, I'll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.
Turning off Icloud completely and relying only on self hosted alternatives, like Immic,Baikal etc.
To give Apple some credit though, they do support 3rd party services pretty well( i.e Cal/Card Dav).
Got a secondhand Pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS. I love it.
Bro how did u write exactly what I wanted to say 😄 I bought a used pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS as well Also I got Mullvad VPN and a bunch of open source apps, its so fun! But the only problem I meet is that some apps are depends on google services a lot. My bank app for example. But I solve it by installing it for a second user And it will take some time to find good replacement for gboard and google translate combination
Duress password is priceless feature, right?
I somehow keep getting people interested in switching from Windows to Linux with a decently higher conversion rate compared to my friends; and it happened again today so I count that as a recent win.
Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.
Every person who switches to Linux I see on Lemmy is a win
Put graphene on my phone and really like it.
Moved chat with my partner to signal.
Germany came out again against chat control.
Germany opposing chat controll is such good news. But we have to wait to see the true outcome.
A good thing was also that Germany officially said that "suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law". This indicates it's a firm position and not a flimsy "maybe tomorrow..." position.
I'm using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!
For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D
My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎
You actually got a WhatsApp group to move??!!?!!?? That's so hard! Congratulations.
Installed LMS (and got some of my former music streaming server to send me my listening data as .csv via GDPR request) and WireGuard this week.
Also took the occasion to clean up and simplify my nginx reverse proxy a bit, making the addition of a new service on my server easier.
A lot Cause I only start worry about my privacy Now i got Graohene OS, Mullvad VPN and I'm about to set up Nextcloud on my vps to get read of Google drive Also I replace gmail, Google search, google translate and almost every google apps with FOSS alternative Its so fun to explore it
Nice, leaving Google is a lot of work but worth it, kudos!
I started self-hosting! I got Nextcloud and Grocy set up! Jellyfin too, but I got some small issues to work out. Next up is, a workout application and home assistant. I'll be transferring all my cams and stuff to HA. My whole family uses Signal, which is pretty cool. And I'm about to take the Graphene plunge, but I haven't ROM hacked in years. I hear it's super easy with Graphene, though.
Graphene is more than easy. It's a browser based install with a USB cable. It'll take some time to read through and execute the steps, but at the core its like 15 minutes of real work.
Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁
If you're new to self-hosting I highly recommend you look at YUNOhost. All of those apps are available on it.
I too thank you for the recommendation.
Thank you very much! Will look into it :)
How did you get VPN Killswitch on Fedora? And SyncThing is great
Honestly, idk. I just turned it on, set it to advanced and it just works 🤷♂️
You must use the linux app then and not manual wireguard conf files
Ah yes! But for my raspberry pi with ubuntu server on it, I think I followed something like this https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations
there is no tutorial for kill switch in manual confs on that website, i think you have to set it up with ufw
Privacy wins...hmm well I've managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.
how did you get that number?
Combined number of blocks of all lists on my pFsense box. I am filtering quite heavily. You could do about the same thing with a PI-Hole Unbound.
Its recent in being a month old now, but:
- set up a dedicated server mini PC that really let me expand my self hosting beyond my Synology
- switched from Plex to Jellyfin (including for music)
- found out I can hard link files with my Arr's setup so I can seed without having to keep duplicate copies of files, so that's a win for the network. The privacy aspect is that I'm happy to get rid of data mining services I was using before my Arr's setup.
- started using Immich for photos. So far so good
- Self hosted notes (Joplin)
- got remote desktop working on my home server, so if I'm at work and need to do a personal task, then I can do it on my own PC rather than the work browser.
- I use a chat app to make groups in which I'm the only participant. This is for sharing things across devices (links, files, notes, etc). Even on locked down work PCs I can open the web chat app and access my self-shared content. I used Telegram for this before. Now I'm self hosting an Element server.
- I've got syncthing running on my Retroid Pocket 5 + PC with Switch emulation. So Now I can ditch my Nintendo Switch completely and keep control of my save files. Fuck you Nintendo.
How do you hardlink your Arr files?
In sonarr/radarr you just select hardlinking instead of copy in the appropriate dropdown menu in settings and that's it. Nothing else needs to be done if they share the same storage.
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I've recently switched my music over to jellyfin, using various tools to get music from my Spotify playlists and curating them with beets. More recently than that, Immich went stable so I've got it running now in tandem with photoprism. I'd probably switch all the way from photoprism if Immich could read duplicates from the external library when uploaded by a user from an Android & if you could have some sort of android retention policy, like if a photo is older than 6 months and it exists on the server it can be deleted from the android.
I recently switched from Google Photos to Ente.
I deleted more apps from my mobile phone, that was problematic. I deleted several apps from my Windows computer. I found more alternatives to apps I need, on my Mint22 computer. I set up NextCloud, and it works perfectly on all units. I got 3 others to join me on my NextCloud. I am still OMW to fade out FB completely.
Other than that, I keep my units up to date.
Nice! I recently set up adguard home on my local network 😎 I'm also self hosting my own audio server with navidrome. Now I don't have to deal with spotify :D
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Been on GrapheneOS for a few weeks. Great daily driver. I feel like I have control of my phone. It constantly asks me what to share and how much.
It sort of reminds me of the granular control you get on Linux.
Been years since I flashed a new ROM but it was way easier than things had been. Literally a web installer. Love it!
Running ADGuard at home and being able to only use Linux privately
Man I've been a hot streak! I got NextDNS configured with Mulvad VPN and learned how to route Molly/signal through Tor. I also got a VPN router and was able to set NecxtDNS up on it as well.
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I can finally pin-point what gave away the latest game I played. I was playing 2077 and their launch client problaby sold the data about my steam account.
That's dope! Can you give a brief overview of how you accomplish that ?
Well, I was only playing on my personal PC which has Linux. My steam has been setup not to sell personal information. I did not search the game anywhere (I was just starting). It's just easier to see where things leaked when you take a privacy focus so if I notice a leak it's problably on the new thing I had to boot up to play.
Oh I gotcha. I thought you had an app/device/software/etc that would help point out leaks.
as far as I know they're selling those kind of services but they do seem to be bogus.
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